Crack-
Rain poured over the city, and the sky soon turned pitch-black. The towering city resembled a sea of fire upon the vast earth. A bolt of thunder split the curtain of rain, lighting the dark streets snow-white.
Clop, clop...
On the long bluestone street, Ye Jingtang rode a fierce black horse slowly past one alley entrance after another.
The Black Qilin Spear in his hand pointed diagonally toward the street. Dense raindrops struck its shaft and slid down its blade, joining into a thread of water at its tip.
Drip, drip, patter...
Several blocks in West City had become a deserted, deathly silent hunting ground after a series of deadly fights.
Over a thousand Imperial Guards and constables, armed with powerful bows and crossbows, had sealed off the blocks surrounding the Marquis of Yunning's Residence.
Dozens of experts from the Secret Guard and Black Bureau hunted through the blocks in pairs, searching for the lurking criminals according to their list.
The criminals who dared come to the Capital City to commit crimes were all seasoned veterans. Their martial skills might vary, but their mastery of hiding and escaping was unquestionably forged to perfection.
Ye Jingtang had first seized their primary target, Liu Qiansheng. Once the commotion began, the criminals elsewhere realized things were going wrong and scattered.
But with the Battle Plan Map provided by their intelligence, most of those trying to escape according to plan ran straight into waiting weapons without exception, and went down with hardly any resistance.
The few alert experts who remained had chosen other directions to escape, but trapped within the blocks, they were gradually rooted out as well. Only two experts in Lightness Skill remained unaccounted for.
After they had patrolled the streets back and forth for a long time, Shang Jianli emerged